Chapter 170: Steam Machinery

After thinking about it for a while, Leo went to the other side of the third floor to store the mechanical books.

Leo himself doesn't care too much about mechanical knowledge, after all, looking at the machinery of the steam civilization from the perspective of the Great Cosmic Age, even if he feels that there is a simple and primitive beauty in it, he doesn't think that this knowledge is worth spending time and energy to learn.

However, Leo is still willing to do it if he can replenish the database of peacocks in steam mechanics, provided that he has nothing else to do, as he does now.

Compared to the other two study rooms, this room for mechanical books is much cleaner, and all the books in the collection are not just decorations, there are a lot of traces of reading on them. What's more, the books in this room are carefully selected, and the contents of each book can be separated into separate series, and there are no similarities, from the most basic mechanical principles to the most profound analytical instructions for the steam power plant of an airship.

It's just that the most of all the books are some humanoid puppet-made books, and these books are also the most read books, many pages have wear and tear caused by too many pages, and there are also a large number of readers' thoughts and notes recorded on them, and this reader is undoubtedly Peter Alcott.

Although before reading these mechanical books of steam civilization, Leo did not have any discrimination or contempt for these knowledge in his heart, but a little contempt is still inevitable, after all, after being accustomed to seeing the giant warships that travel through the universe, and then looking at the mechanical devices of steam civilization, there is indeed a kind of psychology of adults looking at children's toys.

But when he flipped through the first book that recorded the most basic mechanical principles, and the subbrain system sorted these contents into the database, he realized that he had underestimated the steam machinery of this world, and he also found that the physical knowledge of the Earth Federation could not be applied to the physical principles of this steam civilization, which had its own set of physical principles that Leo thought were extremely absurd.

For example, a mechanical gear, which is only the size of a fist and has the strength of ordinary steel, can act as the core of a complete steam bearing transmission system, as if the steel has increased its strength dozens of times after being made into a gear.

In addition, as long as you know a little bit of physical principles, it is clear that any kind of power and energy will cause some natural losses due to external factors in the process of transmission. Even the alien race with the highest technological civilization in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, they can only achieve close to zero loss in energy transmission, but cannot achieve absolute zero loss.

However, the situation here is completely different, not only does the steam transmission energy through gears, bearings and other objects do not cause any loss, but even for some incomprehensible reasons to produce energy amplification, so that steam energy can produce a magical effect equal to ten.

Moreover, this magical new physics principle exists not only in the steam civilization of this dream world, but also in the world of Velon.

Comparing the mechanical structure and principle of steam in the two worlds, it is not difficult to find that the steam energy of the Vinylon world is also magical and powerful, so the energy transmitted by the steam engine alone can support such a huge train to move fast on the track, and it can make the super giant airship made of steel fly in the air.

It's just that the two worlds have different steam energy because of the difference in burning raw materials.

The dream world burns a coal-like substance, called ash stone, which is produced in the fog area, and basically as long as the land in the fog area is ash stone, but the quality is different. In addition to preventing the spread of the fog area and the influx of fog monsters into the lake forest, the task of guarding the castle in the fog area is more responsible for the safety of ash stone deposits in the fog area.

The temperature produced by this ash stone after it is completely burned is not very high, but it is very long-lasting, which also makes the instantaneous energy of their explosion not strong enough to support the rapid operation of various steam machines, but it can increase the continuous operation time, so even if there are large steam machines in the dream world, they can only operate in a slow and long-lasting way.

The special plant growth environment of the vinylon world makes the wood resources here almost inexhaustible, and the wood that is used as raw materials is all the kind that can be burned violently, and the special method makes them into charcoal that can continue to burn, so that the steam energy produced by these raw materials is strong and powerful, enough to propel those behemoths to run fast on the ground and fly steadily in the air.

After learning about the mechanics of this world and the magic of steam energy, Leo also began to re-examine the mechanical civilization of this world, and his attitude towards other books was no longer just to expand the database, but to learn a new kind of knowledge.

With the books recorded in the database, Leo has a deeper understanding of this strange steam machine civilization, some things that the same civilization of the Earth Federation universe cannot do, the steam civilization here can easily do, plus the assistance of some magical witchcraft, the effect of the two is not just one plus one.

Even in this purely mechanical civilization, which does not even have integrated circuits, it is possible to combine witchcraft and machinery to make items similar to mechanical control chips, such as Peter Alcott's maid.

If the ordinary mechanical books on the shelves helped Leo broaden his horizons, then the mechanical golem books that Peter Alcott specially sorted out made him really touch the core part of the world's steam mechanical civilization.

The content of these books does not touch on the manufacturing process of the mechanical puppet itself, but only tells the process of transforming large steam machinery into mechanical puppets, which is a history of the manufacturing process of mechanical puppets.

Although these books do not specifically describe the assembly and manufacturing methods of any kind of mechanical golem components, the data recorded in these articles allows Leo to speculate on some details.

He found that the most important components of these mechanical golems, in addition to the mysterious things that resembled control chips and the core steam furnace provided by the Wizarding Guild, the various sizes of the components were also key items, and the precision of the parts completely affected the energy efficiency of the final components.

For example, Witzmere went to the town of Seventh Lake to purchase a batch of precision parts, because the parts made in the Peter Alcott factory are the best in the entire Lake District Union, and the machine components assembled from such parts can play the strongest role.

After learning this, Leo thought about the things he had seen in the aristocratic quarters.

After he entered the aristocratic district that day, he found that there were no patrol guards in the aristocratic district, but only some sentry posts were symbolically set up in the internal divisions of each aristocratic district. The number of these guards was not large, and their main task was not to provide services such as guarding the doors of those noble banquets.

Leo sensed that the internal defense of this aristocratic district was strange.

Even though most of the nobles in the dream world who live in the aristocratic area can be configured and have various powers and abilities, except for a few nobles with military merits, most of them are not warriors. Even if it is configured, the power that can be exerted will not be very strong.

According to Leo's estimate, with his current ability, it would be difficult to sweep through the aristocratic district of the entire town on the seventh lake, but it would not be difficult to infiltrate and assassinate someone.

With the commonality of the magnates of each world who are greedy for life and afraid of death, the defense force within the aristocratic district is too weak.

But now after reading the history of the evolution of the mechanical golem, Leo found that the defense force of the aristocratic district was not only not weak, but extremely strong, so strong that with his strength, he rashly broke into it without knowing anything, and I am afraid that it would be difficult to escape with his whole body.

Because in that urban area, any mechanical device with a separate steam furnace as a power could be a mechanical puppet similar to the Earth Federation combat robots, according to this calculation, there are nearly a thousand powerful mechanical golems in the aristocratic district of the entire town on the seventh lake.

"That's how they have been able to rule the world for so long. Leo closed a book in his hand about the combat power of mechanical golems and muttered to himself, but then he added, "This is probably one of the reasons why the Wizarding Guild is still able to rule this place." ”

Thinking about the mechanical golem control components provided by the Wizarding Guild, it is not difficult for Leo to guess that the wizards may have already done something to control the control components, usually these mechanical golems are the main force that helps the nobles of the Lake District Alliance rule the ten towns, but when necessary, these mechanical golems are also deadly killers who take the lives of nobles.

"Should this be a mechanical puppet as well?" Just as Leo recalled the mechanical puppets disguised as various steam machines in the aristocratic district through the subbrain system, he suddenly thought of something, opened the spiritual net, re-examined Peter Alcott's room, and then said thoughtfully.

After a purposeful analysis of the parabrain system, Leo discovers that Peter Alcott's house is also a kind of mechanical puppet, but compared to the mechanical puppets in the aristocratic district, this house does not have that kind of control components, but simple mechanical devices, but these devices are combined through some extremely ingenious linkage devices to produce an automatic operation mode similar to a mechanical puppet.

Although this model does not have a certain level of intelligence like a real mechanical golem, and can do things such as distinguishing friend and foe and form, this mechanical golem is another attempt, a new mechanical golem that can still maintain combat power after removing the key part of the control component.

"Isn't this a mech?" Leo quickly deduced from the characteristics of the mechanical parts in the house what Peter Alcott would eventually want to develop this new type of mechanical golem into, and the final result surprised him a little.

Because, he found that in the end, this kind of mechanical golem developed after removing the control components will be controlled by ordinary people and engage in a certain fixed mode of combat, which is very similar to the early mecha of the Earth Federation.

In the early cosmic exploration of the Earth Federation, mecha were also popular for a period of time, but in some subsequent wars and conflicts with alien races, the Earth Federation found that this extremely popular weapon in the old Earth era could not adapt to the cosmic level of combat at all, or more accurately, the human form was a non-cosmic race form.

Eventually, the mechs were either exhibited at the Earth Federation Military Museum or distributed to ground forces as part of the ground defense forces.

In a small-scale ground war that Leo participated in, he had piloted such mechas, and he had also specially supplemented relevant materials, so he knew the basic structure of mechas very well.

It was precisely because of this understanding that he could easily see the traces of the Earth Federation mecha parts from some key parts of the house, such as the device that is the main axis of the house linkage system is very similar to the supporting parts of the mecha. Although these parts have undergone some modifications, the overall characteristics have not changed much, and it can almost be judged that the two are two branch members developed from the same type of components.

Previously, Leo had revealed some small details from Peter Alcott, speculating that Peter Alcott might have been to the Earth Federation before, and now this house is another case of evidence.

"Is this his own whim, or is there an aristocratic force behind it?" After carefully examining the situation of this house, Leo couldn't help but have a question in his mind.

If it was just Peter Alcott himself who made such a house on a whim, and cleverly installed the mecha components of the old Earth era in the house to test the efficacy of these components, then this matter is only a personal matter.

But if Peter Alcott's actions are supported by the aristocratic forces, then it means that the aristocratic forces of the entire Lake District Alliance have begun to have the idea of rebelling against the absolute rule of the Wizarding Association, no matter what the situation turns out in the end, there will inevitably be some turmoil within the Silvermoon Lake District Alliance.

Thinking of this, Leo suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, and said to himself: "What does this matter have to do with me, what do you want to do so much?"

As a passer-by, Leo didn't think about the power struggle within the Lake District Alliance, but quickly collected all the remaining books in the study into the database. It is then handed over to the paracerebral system for archiving.

After completing the archiving of the materials, Leo also did the same thing as he did in the other two study rooms, and also selected a simple mechanical part from the materials, and prepared to select materials in the secret room upstairs to assemble and test, confirming his previous guess about the strength and weakness of the kinetic energy generated by the operation of the steam machinery in this world through the data.

However, just as Leo got up and was about to open the entrance to the attic secret room, a burst of extremely strong spiritual energy fluctuations suddenly came from behind him, and a cold air below freezing appeared out of thin air, instantly filling the entire room, and at the same time, a figure also appeared in the room along with the cold air.